Political Basics 2 Flashcards
two types of unilineal descent
patriline & matriline
describe patriline
men stay together, women marry out
describe matriline
women stay together, men marry out
Who is the most important man to a woman?
her brother, NOT husband
Bilineal descent
everyone has part of the patrilineal and matrilineal descent
ambilineal descent
you can choose to trace from the male or female lines
parallel descent
men trace through male lines, women from female
bilateral descent
both sides are both traced (big family tree)
the two descent groups
lineage & clan
what is lineage
kin that trace line to common ancestor
what is a clan
large lineages split into smaller ones (via fission)
what is fission
the process of splitting large lineages into smaller ones
what is a phratry
2+ clans of the same ancestral line
what is a moiety
a society divided exactly into two phratries
